Claire Adelfang
Claire Adelfang was born in 1984 in Paris, where she continues to live and work today. She studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where she joined the workshop of Patrick Tosani and graduated in 2010.
She works with a film camera, and the square format serves her graphic or sculptural research. She is interested in natural environments transformed by human activities and in the indirect traces of human presence, resulting in a silent and contemplative dialogue between mankind and its own history. Her practice mainly focuses on emblematic places that are often inaccessible to the public, and she emphasizes the unreal nature of these environments.
Claire Adelfang has received numerous awards and nominations, including those for the Prix Meurice 2013, Prix Mastercard 2013 and Prix BMW Art Makers 2021. Her work is included in the collections of The Château de Versailles, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, the Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val de Marne, the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, the Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez in Bordeaux, the Compagnie de Phalsbourg, JP Morgan and Blackstone London. She has been commissioned by the Hôtel de Crillon and the Axitis group. Since 2015, I have been working in partnership with the Opéra national de Paris to realize a photographic project.
